When we're busy or involved with helping others, it's easy to put ourselves at the bottom of our priority list. Nevertheless, it's vital to find little ways to show ourselves compassion, because at the end of the day, each of us matters as much as anyone else in our lives. Self-compassion not only can help us feel balanced and appreciated, but it is also essential to feeling healthy and safe. Read more here ...

Even small acts of kindness and compassion toward other humans or animals not only brings them happiness and makes us feel good too, but also considerably improves our health, including the health of our heart. Watch this talk by David Hamilton, PhD, to learn the scientific reasons why.

Compassion is complete understanding. If I have compassion, then I will give you what you need as best I can with no conditions. I will not put you in a box. I will let you be free, and I won’t place expectations on you. All beneficial activities come from compassion. On top of that, we can build the notion of love, the notion of kindness. Compassion is how the universe works, how people work, how your friendships work. But to really understand compassion, you must first show all these things to yourself. Read more here ...

"Teaching kids facts and analytical thinking skills isn’t enough. We need to nurture empathy from a very early age." Find out what Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, has to teach us about compassion. Read more here ...

A good hike through a forest or up a mountain can certainly cleanse the mind, body, and soul. But science is now discovering that hiking can actually change the brain...for the better! Read more here...

"If you want to improve your physical health, start being kinder to yourself. Recent research on self-compassion shows that self-directed kindness can have a variety of physical and emotional benefits." Read more here ...

"Many people struggle with the false belief that self-compassion is correlated to selfishness. But self-compassion isn’t about building your ego and always judging yourself positively. Rather it’s about recognizing who we are and tending to our authentic selves—including our flaws—with kindness." Read more here ...

"Perhaps the most important tool of compassion is empathy, which is the ability to understand what someone else experiences and reflect that understanding back to them. Empathy is also a vital component of what it means to be emotionally intelligent.

​"Being compassionate doesn’t mean taking on and solving other people’s problems. Nor does it mean you have to agree with the actions that got the individual into a particular situation. And being compassionate doesn’t mean you don’t hold the individual accountable." Click here to read more...

Empathy is first and foremost an internal quality. It is an attitude of loving, caring, and oneness with the participants in your life. In order to have true empathy, whatever is important to another person in your life must be equally important to you. Read more here ...

“If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace.” ~Ajahn Chah

When we allow the past to shape our present, worry about the future, or cling to regret, stress, or anxiety, we deny ourselves peace, both emotionally and physically. But if we can let go, even just a little, we create room for peace to enter. Read on to learn more ...